Short Nonfiction Collections

Descrição
Recommended collections of general interest short-form nonfiction. Feel free to add your own recommendations.
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
por David Sedaris
20,870 membros
359 críticas
4
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Notes from a Small Island
por Bill Bryson
9,659 membros
214 críticas
3.8
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
por Bill Bryson
7,183 membros
113 críticas
3.8
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
por Joan Didion
4,022 membros
82 críticas
4.1
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ManWithAnAgenda
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Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories
por Chuck Palahniuk
3,301 membros
39 críticas
½ 3.4
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ManWithAnAgenda
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Paris to the Moon
por Adam Gopnik
2,745 membros
32 críticas
½ 3.7
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31 Songs
por Nick Hornby
2,299 membros
36 críticas
½ 3.4
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ManWithAnAgenda
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
por Neil deGrasse Tyson
2,022 membros
46 críticas
4
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hipdeep
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Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
por Chuck Klosterman
1,757 membros
27 críticas
½ 3.7
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
por Elisabeth Tova Bailey
1,242 membros
91 críticas
4.1
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souloftherose
11
Life Among the Savages
por Shirley Jackson
976 membros
41 críticas
3.9
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ManWithAnAgenda
12
Raising Demons
por Shirley Jackson
400 membros
12 críticas
4
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ManWithAnAgenda
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Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
por Lester Bangs
371 membros
2 críticas
3.8
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In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction
por Judith Kitchen
214 membros
2 críticas
½ 3.7
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ManWithAnAgenda
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How I Learned To Cook: Anthony Bourdain, Eric Ripert, Gabrielle Hamilton
por Kimberly Witherspoon
183 membros
3 críticas
½ 3.6
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American Stories
por Calvin Trillin
150 membros
1 crítica
4.1
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The Secret World of the Irish Male
por Joseph O'Connor
114 membros
3.2
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The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball
por Charles Einstein
102 membros
4
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Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
por David Rutledge
93 membros
5 críticas
3.9
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A Few Thousand Words About Love
por Mickey Pearlman
22 membros
½ 3.5
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Grantland Quarterly, No. 7
por Bill Simmons
4 membros
½ 3.5
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Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
por Anne Lamott
4,464 membros
67 críticas
4
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I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
por Nora Ephron
3,339 membros
150 críticas
½ 3.5
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Small Wonder: Essays
por Barbara Kingsolver
2,224 membros
34 críticas
4
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High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
por Barbara Kingsolver
2,212 membros
33 críticas
4
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The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
por Neil Gaiman
1,628 membros
78 críticas
4
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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
por Michael Pollan
1,575 membros
50 críticas
4
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Mortality
por Christopher Hitchens
1,551 membros
74 críticas
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The control of nature
por John McPhee
1,347 membros
18 críticas
4.2
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
por Ann Patchett
1,311 membros
74 críticas
4.1
32
A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams
por Michael Pollan
1,095 membros
20 críticas
3.8
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Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
por Anne Lamott
984 membros
35 críticas
3.9
34
Microbe Hunters
por Paul De Kruif
980 membros
20 críticas
3.9
35
Where I Was From
por Joan Didion
806 membros
15 críticas
3.8
36
The Best American Essays of the Century
por Joyce Carol Oates
758 membros
4 críticas
3.9
37
Uncommon Carriers
por John McPhee
725 membros
27 críticas
3.9
38
The Gastronomical Me
por M. F. K. Fisher
596 membros
17 críticas
4.1
39
How to Cook a Wolf
por M. F. K. Fisher
587 membros
13 críticas
4
40
Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair
por Anne Lamott
533 membros
33 críticas
3.9
41
Travels with Alice
por Calvin Trillin
391 membros
6 críticas
3.8
42
The way the world works : essays
por Nicholson Baker
192 membros
8 críticas
½ 3.6
44
It's a Don's Life
por Mary Beard
128 membros
4 críticas
3.9
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The Life of Meaning: Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World
por Bob Abernethy
120 membros
5 críticas
½ 4.3
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Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago
por Blair Kamin
112 membros
½ 4.3
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Naked To The Bone: Medical Imaging In The Twentieth Century
por Bettyann Kevles
64 membros
3 críticas
3.2
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Workin' on the Railroad: Reminiscences from the Age of Steam
por Richard Warren Reinhardt
36 membros
1 crítica
½ 4.5
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She's Been Working on the Railroad
por Nancy Smiler Levinson
21 membros
3
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Celebrating Women in Mathematics and Science
por Miriam P. Cooney
14 membros
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We Took the Train (Railroads in America)
por H. Roger Grant
12 membros
1 crítica
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